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Dielectric metasurfaces supporting quasi-bound states in the continuum (qBICs) enable high field enhancement with narrow-linewidth resonances in the visible and near-infrared ranges. The resonance emerges when distorting the meta-atom's…

Photonic devices rarely provide both elaborate spatial control and sharp spectral control over an incoming wavefront. In optical metasurfaces, for example, the localized modes of individual meta-units govern the wavefront shape over a broad…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-27 Stephanie C. Malek , Adam C. Overvig , Andrea Alù , Nanfang Yu

We examine layered metamaterial structures consisting of alternating films of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) and dielectric material, and show that for such a stack it is possible to enhance the refractive, reflective or absorptive properties of…

This paper presents an end-to-end design method for the synthesis of dielectric metasurfaces with modulated thickness that are able to realize desired radiation patterns in the far-field with high precision. The method relies on integral…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Vasileios G. Ataloglou , George V. Eleftheriades

We propose a new method for integrating metasurfaces in optical design using semi-analytical modelling of dielectric nanostructures. The latter computes the output phase of an electric field incident on the metasurface, allowing their use…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-28 Alexandre Cléroux Cuillerier , Jeck Borne , Simon Thibault

Nonlinear frequency conversion unlocks technologies ranging from telecommunications to quantum computation; however, weak nonlinearities and architectures that resist miniaturization currently limit devices. Here, we combine a…

In this paper, we propose a switchable high-Q light absorber based on a reconfigurable metasurface enabled by a lowloss phase-change material (PCM). By leveraging the coupling between guided-mode resonance and Fabry-Perot modes, mediated by…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-13 Kai Qi , Guoxiang Wang , Xiang Shen , Yixiao Gao

Enhancing and controlling light-matter interactions is crucial in nanotechnology and material science, propelling research on green energy, laser technology, and quantum cryptography. Central to enhanced light-matter coupling are two…

Strong field-confinement, long-lifetime resonances, and slow-light effects suggest that meta surfaces are a promising tool for nonlinear optical applications. These nanostructured devices have been utilized for relatively high efficiency…

In this study, we investigate a novel "dimerized" dielectric metasurface featuring dual-mode resonances governed by symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum (BICs). The metasurface design offers advantages such as insensitivity to…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 Maryam Ghahremani , Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez

Optical metasurfaces have developed as a breakthrough concept for advanced wave-front engineering enabled by subwavelength resonant nanostructures. However, reflection and/or absorption losses as well as low polarisation-conversion…

Optically resonant high-index dielectric metasurfaces featuring Mie-type electric and magnetic resonances are usually fabricated by means of planar technologies, which limit the degrees of freedom in tunability and scalability of the…

Near-field enhancement and sub-wavelength imaging properties of a system comprising a coupled pair of two-dimensional arrays of resonant nanospheres are studied. The concept of using two coupled material sheets possessing surface mode…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pekka Alitalo , Constantin Simovski , Ari Viitanen , Sergei Tretyakov

Existing methods for the localization of light at the nanoscale use either a structure with negative permittivity, by exploiting subwavelength plasmonic resonances, or a dielectric structure with a high refractive index, which reduces the…

Micro-mechanical resonators are widely used in modern sensing technology due to their high quality-factor (Q), enabling sensitive detection of various stimuli. However, the performance of these resonators in fluid environments is limited by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-11 Sri Harsha Paladugu , Kaustav Roy , Anuj Ashok , Bibhas Nayak , Annapoorni Rangarajan , Rudra Pratap

The strong electric and magnetic resonances in dielectric subwavelength structures have enabled unique opportunities for efficient manipulation of light-matter interactions. Besides, the dramatic enhancement of nonlinear light-matter…

High-quality flat optical elements require efficient light deflection to large angles and over a wide wavelength spectrum. Although phase gradient metasurfaces achieve this by continuously adding phase shifts in the range of 0 to 2{\pi} to…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-26 Claudio U. Hail , Dimos Poulikakos , Hadi Eghlidi

Metasurfaces offer great potential to control near- and far-fields through engineering of optical properties of elementary cells or meta-atoms. Such perspective opens a route to efficient manipulation of the optical signals both at…

The study is devoted to development and optimization of a metasurface-based sensor with graphene constituents for potential biosensing applications. A unit cell of the proposed metasurface consists of a thin flexible dielectric substrate…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-12 K. S. Kuznetsova , V. A. Pashynska , Z. E. Eremenko

High quality-factor (Q) dielectric metasurfaces operating in the visible to near-infrared range usually require sub-200 nm features, limiting their fabrication to expensive, low-throughput electron beam lithography. Here, we demonstrate…